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Steam Hardware Survey: Windows 7 and GeForce GTX 1060 Lead the Pack
As you might (or not) know, Steam collects a lot of statistical data from their users which they share openly. And that always paints a very interesting picture as to what is the most popular hardware and software used. The December and 2nd half 2017 results have been listed, and guess what the number one hardware is?
So, I understand that here at Guru3D most of us are the high-end and enthusiast PC gamers, often with more than 6-core processors while staring at their Radeon RX Vega or a GeForce GTX 1080. The truth of it all is that seen overall things in hardware are much more level and widespread.
In December the most used graphics card was a GeForce GTX 1060 with over 12% of the user base. 47% of the end-users still have 8GB of RAM, where I am sure that Guru3D users would be at 16GB. The most used display resolution still is 1920x1080 with get this ... 70% of steams users.
Processor wise 67% of the users have a quad-core proc and 55% is running Windows 7. Also, you can see that when you focus on Q4 of 2017, AMD has not been doing well. Nvidia holds 85% of the graphics card market, and for processors, 91% of the pie is for Intel. As you can see, that share has been on the decline for AMD.
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#5506749 Posted on: 01/03/2018 01:09 PM
As you might (or not) know, Steam collects a lot of statistical data from their users which they share openly. And that always paints a very interesting picture as to what is the most popular hardwar...
Steam Hardware Survey: Windows 7 and GeForce GTX 1060 Lead the Pack
... "chinese simplified" and W7... yes it fit well to each other.
As you might (or not) know, Steam collects a lot of statistical data from their users which they share openly. And that always paints a very interesting picture as to what is the most popular hardwar...
Steam Hardware Survey: Windows 7 and GeForce GTX 1060 Lead the Pack
... "chinese simplified" and W7... yes it fit well to each other.
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#5506757 Posted on: 01/03/2018 01:45 PM
It's not hard to understand why Chinese is the single largest language group present, but why is it simplified Chinese? Isn't simplified basically meant for foreign students of the said language? I recall the first English novel I read back as an elementary schooler was The Invisible Man in simplified English.
It's not hard to understand why Chinese is the single largest language group present, but why is it simplified Chinese? Isn't simplified basically meant for foreign students of the said language? I recall the first English novel I read back as an elementary schooler was The Invisible Man in simplified English.
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#5506775 Posted on: 01/03/2018 02:40 PM
HI guys, even though I have been a reader for several years, this made me register. I have always had at least
3 PCs in the house. 1 for old folks, a middle performance PC w/ mid/lo perf Graphics card. Then I had my gamer
which was usually pretty nice for the 1st couple of years & lastly I had the old gaming machine.
Well I had Steam on all 3 of these in order to play anywhere or anytime I wanted to. So I swear to all that matters the only time steam ever goes to H/W survey is when I am on a 10 year old dual core Athlon. These dual core PC's have been around since they were new. SInce then, I have gotten A Phenom II 965, FX 8350 and Ryzen R5 1600X. Not once has Steam Hardware "gone off" w/ any of these newer machines. But just a few weeks ago it went off again when I was on 80+ yo Dads 2.5 gig Dual core Athlon w/6 gig o RAM & no SSD.
I tried using the 965 the 8350 & the Ryzen & go to the Steam H/w page but it does not seem to count my machines even though Steam is loaded. It really does look like the info provided is deliberately showing trying to show older models or it is just Ignoring AMD as hard as it can, thought non of the reasons I can think of make any sense at all.
Anyway any 1 else with mutli PCs have the best onse ignored by steam? I swear since like 2010 the 965 and newer, the only thing the gets surveyed is a 10 yo dual core!!
HI guys, even though I have been a reader for several years, this made me register. I have always had at least
3 PCs in the house. 1 for old folks, a middle performance PC w/ mid/lo perf Graphics card. Then I had my gamer
which was usually pretty nice for the 1st couple of years & lastly I had the old gaming machine.
Well I had Steam on all 3 of these in order to play anywhere or anytime I wanted to. So I swear to all that matters the only time steam ever goes to H/W survey is when I am on a 10 year old dual core Athlon. These dual core PC's have been around since they were new. SInce then, I have gotten A Phenom II 965, FX 8350 and Ryzen R5 1600X. Not once has Steam Hardware "gone off" w/ any of these newer machines. But just a few weeks ago it went off again when I was on 80+ yo Dads 2.5 gig Dual core Athlon w/6 gig o RAM & no SSD.
I tried using the 965 the 8350 & the Ryzen & go to the Steam H/w page but it does not seem to count my machines even though Steam is loaded. It really does look like the info provided is deliberately showing trying to show older models or it is just Ignoring AMD as hard as it can, thought non of the reasons I can think of make any sense at all.
Anyway any 1 else with mutli PCs have the best onse ignored by steam? I swear since like 2010 the 965 and newer, the only thing the gets surveyed is a 10 yo dual core!!
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#5506782 Posted on: 01/03/2018 02:53 PM
No, simplified Chinese does not mean what you think it means. A quick google search will answer your questions.
It's not hard to understand why Chinese is the single largest language group present, but why is it simplified Chinese? Isn't simplified basically meant for foreign students of the said language? I recall the first English novel I read back as an elementary schooler was The Invisible Man in simplified English.
No, simplified Chinese does not mean what you think it means. A quick google search will answer your questions.
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Chinese dropped from 64.35 to 49.04 in a month... A similar statistic crap applies to Windows version too. Last month the GTX 750TI was like the only GPU present on the earth. etc etc...
The random pikes in the graphs also suggest the criteria used to take the survey data are bad. Most of the data comes from new installations and they do not represent a randomized quota all steam users. Just do not look at steam hardware survey, they never been a good representation of the gaming rigs.